A birth record in a dispensary. A land title in a village office. A baptism registry in a parish. A research paper from an independent scholar. All of them deserve to be undeletable. CONSERVA routes any document to three permanent archives simultaneously — so that no flood, no fire, no failed server, and no corrupt official can erase what happened.
"We cannot recover what was lost. But we can make sure nothing is lost again."
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I am a
Person, Researcher or Family
Preserve your photos, writing, books, school work, family records, and any document permanently. Free. No account needed.
Preserve a Document →
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I represent a
Parish, Dispensary, Library or Ministry
Preserve your institutional records, registries, and archives in bulk. Pilot programmes available. Zero cost.
Institutional Access →
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Zenodo
CERN-operated. Free. DOI assigned.
Awaiting deposit
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Arweave
Decentralised. Pay once. 200+ years.
Awaiting deposit
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Internet Archive
Non-profit. Free. 30+ year track record.
Awaiting deposit
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SSRN
Discovery only. For working papers.
Optional
CONSERVA routes — never stores
Documents go directly to the archives
Zero data held on CONSERVA servers
Zero legal friction. Zero cost to start.
Who CONSERVA is for
Anyone whose files must not disappear.
Hundreds of millions of people across the Global South do not know their exact birth date. Not because nobody recorded it — but because the record did not survive. A dispensary flooded. A parish registry burned. A government office was never properly maintained. CONSERVA exists so that no record created today is ever lost again.
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Dispensaries & health posts
Every birth deserves a permanent digital timestamp. So no child grows up with 8/8 on their documents because nobody knows the truth.
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Parish & church registries
Baptism records, marriage registers, death certificates going back generations. One fire should not erase a century of a community's identity.
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Land registries & title offices
A land title that exists only on paper can be destroyed in a dispute. CONSERVA preserves it permanently — impossible to erase after the fact.
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University libraries
Decades of research on fragile servers. One IT failure should not erase forty years of scholarship.
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Independent researchers
Scholars without institutional backing. One platform change should not erase ten years of original thought.
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NGOs & policy institutes
Policy research, evaluation reports, and methodologies that deserve the same permanence as academic journals.
ORIGINA + CONSERVA
Prove it first. Preserve it forever.
Two platforms. One complete chain of custody. Used together they give any document the strongest possible combination of proof and permanence.
Step 1
ORIGINA
Timestamp your document. Generate a tamper-evident priority certificate. Prove it existed on this date in this exact form.
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Step 2
CONSERVA
Route to Zenodo, Arweave, and Internet Archive simultaneously. Link all archive addresses to the ORIGINA certificate. Issue a Preservation Certificate.
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Result
Chain of Custody
Proof of when it was created. Proof of where it lives permanently. Proof that nothing was altered between creation and preservation. All linked. All verifiable. Forever.
Advanced AI systems arriving now — and AGI systems coming soon — will be able to cross-reference millions of preserved records to reconstruct lost identities, resolve disputed land claims, and verify credentials that no human clerk could verify manually. But only if the records exist. What is never preserved cannot be read.
🏭 Identity reconstruction
A dispensary that preserved 10,000 birth records gives an AGI system enough context to help reconstruct approximate dates for records that were lost. Not perfectly — but better than 8/8.
🏠 Land dispute resolution
A land registry that preserved 30 years of title transfers gives an AGI system the full chain of custody for every parcel — making disputed ownership assessable against the complete history.
⛪ Parish social graphs
A parish that preserved 50 years of baptism registries gives an AGI system a complete social graph — names, dates, family connections — usable to verify identity claims for people whose own records are missing.
🌎 Government mandates
Governments that preserved their civil registries will be able to offer citizens identity reconstruction at scale. Governments that did not will be starting from nothing. The decision is being made now.
The honest limit: AGI can cross-reference what exists. It cannot create what was never recorded. CONSERVA is the infrastructure that ensures what is recorded today still exists when AGI is ready to read it.
About CONSERVA
We cannot recover what was lost. But we can make sure nothing is lost again.
CONSERVA does not fix the birth dates written as 8/8 because nobody knew the truth. What is gone is gone. What CONSERVA does is ensure that every record created from today forward exists permanently in three independent locations.
No single archive guarantees forever. What CONSERVA guarantees is redundancy across three independent systems — so all three would have to fail simultaneously for your document to be lost.
🏫 Zenodo — Strong
Owner: CERN + European Commission. Cost: Free. 50GB per deposit. Gives you: A DOI in DataCite — persists even if Zenodo closes. Note: From 2026, non-academic records are de-ranked in search. Document is preserved but harder to find.
Best for: research, academic papers, scholarly output.
🌐 Arweave — Strong but newer
Owner: Nobody. Decentralised protocol. Cost: ~$4/GB paid once. Gives you: Content-addressed permanent location. Address IS the fingerprint. Track record: Founded 2018. Used by Internet Archive.
Honest risk: depends on AR token economy. Younger than CERN.
💾 Internet Archive — Proven but pressured
Owner: Brewster Kahle. US non-profit. Cost: Free. Unlimited. Gives you: Permanent URL. Full-text search. Track record: Founded 1996. 70+ petabytes. 30 years.
Honest risk: legal pressure from publishers. Donation-dependent.
🌎 IPFS — Decentralised, free
Owner: Nobody. A protocol, not a company. Cost: Free. Files persist as long as nodes hold them. Gives you: Content-addressed storage. No central point of failure. No token economy required. Track record: Growing network. Used alongside Arweave.
Honest risk: requires active pinning. Files may become inaccessible if no node holds them.
🏛 InvenioRDM / DSpace — Sovereign
Owner: You. Your institution. Your server. Cost: Free to install. Same open-source software that powers Zenodo. Gives you: Complete data sovereignty. No external dependency. Your jurisdiction. Your law. Track record: DSpace used by 200+ institutions in 43 countries. InvenioRDM used by CERN itself.
Best for: UN agencies, Vatican, government ministries, any institution that cannot route records outside its jurisdiction.
✅ Multiple destinations — Strongest
Different architectures, different failure modes, different legal jurisdictions. For open content: Zenodo + Arweave + Internet Archive + IPFS. For sovereign institutions: own InvenioRDM/DSpace + ORIGINA timestamp as external proof of existence.
The document does not need to be everywhere. It needs to be undeletable. These combinations achieve that.
Blockchain — what it does and does not do
The honest blockchain statement
Blockchain is excellent at one thing: proving that something happened at a specific moment in a way that is extremely difficult to alter retrospectively. That is exactly what ORIGINA uses it for — tamper-evident timestamps. But blockchain cannot store documents at scale, cannot guarantee a network survives forever, and cannot make lost records reappear. CONSERVA uses blockchain where it genuinely works — through Arweave for decentralised permanent storage — and does not pretend it does more than it does.
✓ What blockchain does
Proves a record existed at a specific date unchanged. Makes tampering practically impossible. Provides a content-addressed permanent location (Arweave).
✕ What blockchain cannot do
Store full documents at scale. Guarantee the network survives forever. Reconstruct records that were never created. Replace institutional preservation.
Individual Preservation
Your files deserve to be undeletable too.
Not just research papers. Not just institutional records. Your photos. Your writing. Your downloaded books. Your school essays. Your family videos. Everything you have ever created or collected deserves to survive a hard drive failure.
Everything you have ever created or collected
CONSERVA routes your files to permanent archives that already exist — free, trusted, and requiring no technical setup from you. One document. Or 50,000 photos at once. CONSERVA handles both.
📷 Photos
Holiday albums. Family moments. Moments that cannot be retaken. One hard drive failure should not erase them.
📝 Writing
Essays, novels, journals, research notes, poetry. Years of thought. A crashed laptop should not erase a decade of writing.
📚 Books and documents
PDFs, ePubs, academic papers, reference materials. A platform shutdown should not erase your library.
🎧 Music and videos
Recordings, family videos, interviews, cultural content. A service cancellation should not erase what you collected.
🏫 School and university work
Essays, dissertations, presentations. Years of academic effort that deserves a permanent home.
🏠 Family records
Birth documents, land papers, family letters, scanned photographs of the elderly. The memory of your family preserved permanently.
One document
Preserve a single file
One birth record. One research paper. One land title. Fill in the details and receive a Preservation Certificate.
Large collection
Preserve thousands at once
5,000 photos. 10,000 parish records. An entire hard drive. CONSERVA prepares the batch and routes everything in one session.
Preserve a large collection
🔒 How it works: ZIP or folder your files on your computer. CONSERVA generates the batch metadata. You deposit the ZIP to Internet Archive or ArDrive (Arweave) in one upload. One session covers thousands of files.
⚠️ Privacy reminder: Internet Archive and Arweave are fully public — anyone can read deposited files. For private collections (personal photos, family records, identity documents), only use Zenodo restricted access or your own server.
Preparing your batch preservation package…
Your batch package is ready
Follow the steps below. ZIP your entire collection and deposit as one item. One upload session covers all your files.
🔒 Your document details are processed in real time and never stored on CONSERVA servers.
Document details
For birth records, land titles, and identity documents: choose All Rights Reserved to keep the record private but permanently timestamped.
ORIGINA connection
Timestamp your document with ORIGINA first, then preserve it here. Together they form a complete chain of custody. No ORIGINA ID yet? Get one first →
Is this document public or private?
Public
Research, frameworks, articles
Content meant to be read, cited, and discovered. Route to Zenodo, Arweave, Internet Archive — open and permanently accessible.
Private
Birth records, photos, family documents
Personal or sensitive content. Only Zenodo restricted access — metadata visible, file private. Or your own server for full privacy.
✅ Public content: Zenodo, Arweave, and Internet Archive are all appropriate. Anyone in the world can find and read your document — which is what you want for research and scholarship.
⚠️ Important: Internet Archive, Arweave, and IPFS are fully public. Do NOT deposit private records there — anyone in the world can read them. For private documents:
✓ Zenodo restricted access — your file is private, only metadata is visible. You control who can request access.
✓ Your own server — complete privacy. Nobody sees anything without your permission.
Choose your archives
🏫 Zenodo
Free DOI. CERN. Public.
🌐 Arweave
200yr guarantee. Public.
💾 Internet Archive
Free. Non-profit. Public.
🌎 IPFS
Decentralised. Free. Public.
🏛 Your own server
Full privacy. You control access.
📄 SSRN
Discovery only. Public.
Your own server. CONSERVA prepares the metadata. Your data stays entirely under your control.
Preparing your preservation package…
Your preservation package is ready
Follow the steps below for each archive. After depositing, enter the resulting address to generate your Preservation Certificate.
Enter your deposit addresses
After depositing to each archive, paste the address here. CONSERVA links them all to your ORIGINA timestamp in the final certificate.
Zenodo DOI
Arweave transaction ID
Internet Archive URL
SSRN Paper ID or URL
Institutional Preservation
Preserve your entire archive. At scale. Zero cost to start.
Click your institution type to see the specific problem CONSERVA solves for you.
Data Sovereignty — Three Tiers
The UN does not hand its records to someone else. The Vatican does not deposit canon-law protected registries onto an American server. A government ministry cannot route civil records outside national jurisdiction. CONSERVA is designed for all three situations.
Tier 1 — Open
Individuals & small organisations
Route to Zenodo, Arweave, Internet Archive. Maximum redundancy. Zero cost. No data governance constraints.
✓ Researchers ✓ NGOs ✓ Families
Tier 2 — Hybrid
Universities & foundations
Route to Zenodo for DOI + institution's own InvenioRDM server for primary custody. Mix of external citation and internal ownership.
✓ Universities ✓ Libraries ✓ Research institutes
Tier 3 — Sovereign
UN, Vatican, governments
Route exclusively to institution's own server. InvenioRDM or DSpace installed on their infrastructure. Nothing leaves their jurisdiction. ORIGINA provides external proof of existence without exposing content.
✓ UN agencies ✓ Vatican ✓ Ministries
🔒 In Tier 3: the document stays entirely on the institution's own server. The ORIGINA timestamp proves it exists externally without revealing its contents to anyone. Undeletable without data exposure.
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Parish & Church
Your baptism registries are one fire away from permanent loss
Parish records going back 100+ years. Handwritten. Irreplaceable. Sitting in a humid office with no backup.
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Dispensary & Health Post
Every birth you record deserves a permanent timestamp
You deliver babies. You record names and dates. But the register stays in one room, in one building, with no backup.
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Land Registry & Title Office
A land title that exists only on paper can be destroyed
Paper records in a government office. Flood, fire, or a corrupt official with a match. The title disappears. The land is taken.
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University Library
Decades of scholarship on a server nobody is maintaining
Theses, working papers, faculty research. Years of output. One failed hard drive and it is gone.
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Government Ministry
Civil registries that governments are legally required to protect
Birth certificates, identity records, official correspondence. Legal obligations to preserve. No infrastructure to do it.
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The Vatican Pitch
200,000+ parishes. Millions of handwritten records. One platform to preserve them all.
The Catholic Church holds more civil registry data than most governments. CONSERVA gives every parish the same preservation infrastructure as the Vatican Library.
For Parishes & Church Registries
A Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox parish across Africa and Latin America may hold baptism records, marriage registers, and death certificates going back 100 years or more. These are not just religious documents. They are identity documents. For millions of people, a baptism certificate is the only proof of birth that survived. One fire should not erase a century of a community's identity.
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Scan or photograph your registries — even a phone photo is sufficient for a first deposit. A typed summary works equally well.
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CONSERVA prepares the metadata and routes each record to Zenodo and Internet Archive — both free, both permanent.
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Receive a master Preservation Certificate for your entire registry. The records now exist in three locations simultaneously. One fire changes nothing.
For Dispensaries & Health Posts
You deliver babies. You write down names and dates. But that register sits in one room, in one building, with no backup. If the building floods — or burns, or simply deteriorates over 20 years — the record of every birth you ever recorded disappears. CONSERVA makes it permanent in ten minutes per batch. No IT department. No budget. No special equipment.
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At the end of each month, photograph or type the month's birth register entries. One document, one deposit.
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CONSERVA generates the metadata and routes to Internet Archive and Zenodo. Both free. Both permanent. Done in five minutes.
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Every child born at your facility now has a permanent, verifiable record that no flood or fire can erase.
For Land Registries & Title Offices
A land title that exists only on paper in a government office can be destroyed in a dispute, lost in a flood, or simply misfiled and never found again. When the title disappears, the land is taken. Families lose generational wealth because a piece of paper did not survive. CONSERVA permanently preserves the record — making it impossible to erase after a dispute begins. The timestamp proves what existed before the dispute started.
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Digitise title records — scan, photograph, or type the key details. CONSERVA accepts any format.
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Each title is timestamped through ORIGINA and routed to Zenodo and Arweave. The permanent address is linked to the official record.
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In a dispute, produce the CONSERVA Preservation Certificate. The timestamp predates the dispute. The record is unalterable.
For University Libraries
An African university library may hold 40 years of theses, faculty papers, working papers, and conference proceedings — all on servers that IT departments struggle to maintain, back up, and protect. One failed hard drive. One expiring maintenance contract. One budget cut. The institution's entire research output disappears. CONSERVA routes every document to Zenodo and Internet Archive — both free, both permanent — giving the library the same preservation infrastructure as Oxford or Harvard at zero cost.
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Identify the priority collection — typically theses and faculty papers first. Start with 100 documents as a pilot.
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CONSERVA prepares Zenodo-ready metadata for each document. Each one receives a DOI — making it citable in international journals.
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Expand to the full collection. Each document exists permanently on CERN infrastructure alongside Nobel Prize-winning research.
For Government Ministries
Governments are legally required to preserve civil registries. Most lack the infrastructure to do so reliably. A government ministry cannot route national civil records outside its jurisdiction — not to CERN, not to Internet Archive, not to any foreign server. National data sovereignty is not optional. It is a legal obligation.
CONSERVA solves this through Tier 3 architecture: the records route to a government-controlled DSpace or InvenioRDM installation on national infrastructure, in the country's own data centre, under national law. CONSERVA prepares the metadata and routes the documents. The government owns the archive entirely. The ORIGINA timestamp provides external proof of existence without any content leaving national borders.
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Identify the ministry and the IT infrastructure available. CONSERVA helps configure DSpace or InvenioRDM on the ministry's own servers — open-source, free, same technology CERN uses.
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CONSERVA routes civil records to the ministry's own archive as they are created. New birth records, land titles, and civil documents are timestamped and preserved without leaving national jurisdiction.
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Each record's ORIGINA timestamp is the only external element — a hash that proves existence without revealing content. The government controls access. The archive is undeletable.
For the Vatican & Catholic Institutions
The Catholic Church operates in 195 countries and holds more civil registry data than most national governments. The Vatican Apostolic Archive in Rome is among the best-preserved institutional archives in the world. But 200,000+ parishes across Africa, Latin America, and Asia are completely different. Millions of handwritten records in humid, underfunded parish offices. One disaster away from permanent loss.
The Vatican does not deposit sensitive canonical records onto servers it does not control. CONSERVA solves this through Tier 3 architecture: the records route to a Vatican-controlled InvenioRDM installation on Holy See infrastructure. Nothing leaves the Church's custody. The ORIGINA timestamp proves existence externally without revealing content. Canon law is respected. Sovereignty is preserved. The records are undeletable.
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A diocesan pilot — 10 parishes, one diocese, 90 days. The Pontifical Commission for Cultural Heritage reviews the architecture. No records leave diocesan control during the pilot.
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CONSERVA routes parish records to the diocese's own InvenioRDM server — installed on their infrastructure, in their jurisdiction. Works in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, and Latin.
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Each record receives an ORIGINA timestamp — external proof of existence without content disclosure. The diocese controls access. The record is undeletable. The Church owns everything.
"CONSERVA gives every Catholic parish in Africa and Latin America the preservation infrastructure of the Vatican Library — on the Church's own servers, under canon law, in the language of the parish. No record leaves the Church's custody."
Bulk Deposit
How institutions deposit at scale.
From 10 documents to 100,000 — the same workflow
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Collect your documents. Scan, photograph, or type. Any format. Any quality. A phone photo of a handwritten register is sufficient for a first deposit.
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Organise into a folder or spreadsheet. One row per document: title, date, description, type. CONSERVA uses this to generate metadata for each archive automatically.
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CONSERVA generates deposit packages. One metadata package per archive (Zenodo JSON, Arweave tags, Internet Archive fields) for your entire batch. Copy and paste for each archive.
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Deposit to each archive. Zenodo and Internet Archive both have bulk upload tools. Arweave batch uploads are available through ArDrive. One session covers hundreds of documents.
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Receive a master Preservation Certificate. One certificate covering the entire batch — listing all archive addresses, linked to ORIGINA timestamps where applicable. Suitable for institutional reporting, donor updates, and legal records.
🔒 CONSERVA processes your documents in real time to generate metadata and routes them to external archives. Nothing is stored on CONSERVA servers. Close the tab and nothing remains.
Request a Pilot
90 days. No cost. No data held.
Tell us about your institution. We will be in touch within 48 hours.
✓ Request Received
Thank you. We will contact you within 48 hours. In the meantime you can start preserving individual documents at conserva.ac.